[K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.

[Walker Winans]

Maybe someone would remember Wally. He was from Hawaii and his call was KH6ELA (every ladies answer). Another was Buddy Waters who lived in San Francisco on Union St. I don't remember his call. After I took my novice test I moved into the club barracks. No more watches guarding the "USS Buttercup". I graduated and moved on before my license came in but I sure have some great memories of TI.

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From: k6ncg-bounces at mailman.qth.net <k6ncg-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Dave Sublette
Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2019 4:27 PM
To: k8mp at aol.com; Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.

If Surfside Watch means the edge of the island at 3 AM with the cold wind and fog blowing through your blues, then the answer is "No"!  When I was at TI, July 62-May, 63, the members of K6NCG hamshack all slept in the same barracks.  We stood our duty inside the hamshack The rules for standing duty were to wear the uniform of the day, sweep down the building every hour, and the duty watch was not allowed to operate a rig.  Believe me when I say we followed those rules to the last letter.  We had a good thing going.  We knew it and were not about to screw it up for everyone else.

There was an officer-in-charge of the shack.  He was a WA6 something.  We didn't see a lot of him, but he did check the watch occasionally.  We had a petty-officer-in-charge.  He was ETN1 Frank Mizell, K4DGU (Dirty Girty's Uncle).  Frank was the receivers instructor for week 20 or so.  We was a prince.  He was in the shack a lot.  He had an odd quality to his voice.
No kidding, it sounded like SSB that was just slightly off tuned.  We loved him.

In a great coincidence, after I left the Navy, finished my BSEE and went to my first job, aerospace circuit design at Harris (then Radiation) in Florida, Frank was the lead technician in our lab.  He supervised the technician crew that built our prototypes.  He ran a tight ship.

After I left Florida and went to Huntsville, AL. I had one QSO with Frank, who had retired and moved to Rocky Mount, NC.  Frank is now a Silent Key.
But I would guess there are a lot of K6NCG folks who have great memories of our time with Frank.

73,

Dave, K4TO

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 4:51 PM Joe Papworth via K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Raise your hand if you ever had the privilege of standing the 
> "Surfside Watch".
>
>
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> From: dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
> To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019 02:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.
>
>
> Conditions aren’t very good this weekend and I don’t have my tower up 
> at my new QTH…
>
> However, I did get the club call into the logs of the USS Hornet, the 
> SS Pampanito, and the SS Red Oak Victory.  The Hornet was very excited 
> to hear the TIARA callsign today.
>
> An update on the Island for those who have asked…
>
> The BOQ/BEQ barracks “Round” or “Star” barracks have been demolished. 
> The concrete they were made of has been ground up and tuned into fill 
> dirt to raise the level of the island.
> The Acey-Ducey/Chief’s Club is gone and is somewhere under that dirt.
>
> They just ground up the old Brig, but that was a more modern 
> structure, so many of you may not remember it.
>
> They dug out and removed the old “Pandemonium” about a year and a half ago.
>
> The auto hobby shop is now an RV storage lot, where I keep my GMC 
> motorhome.
>
> The elementary school in the housing area closed down years ago.  
> There’s a great restaurant made out of some of the front classrooms 
> called “Cafe Aracely”
>
> Most of the Great Lawn is gone.  It’s part of the first parcel 
> transferred to the city and they’ve built a fence around that.  
> They’ve demolished everything that was there and they’re raising the ground level.
>
> The very north end of the lawn is still there and there’s a restaurant 
> there made of shipping containers with excellent food and a great bar.
>
> All of the officer’s housing on Yerba Buena Island are gone except for 
> the “Great Whites” down on the eastern shore near the Coast Guard 
> base.  The first stage of condo development will happen on top of the hill.
>
> The Yacht Club moved into building 2.  The Museum has a small room in 
> building 1 just off of the lobby.
>
> I’ll snap some photos later.  I’m taking requests of there’s anything 
> you’d like to see.
>
> Thanks for letting me share the tradition of Amateur Radio from 
> Treasure Island.
>
> Desmond, KC6VHG
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